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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE l SCOVILLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,428, dated March 9, .1880. Application filed November 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in Hair-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connec tion with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, which said. drawings constitute part of this speciication, and represent, in

Figure l, side view; Fig. 2, the blank from which the head is formed; Fig. 3, the blank as prepared for closing upon the head; Fig. 4, vertical section, and in Fig. 5 under-side view of the head.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of hair-pins made from a piece of wire doubled to form two prongs and provided with a head at the doubled end, and the invention consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in theV claim.

A A are the two prongs of the hair-pin, bent in substantially the usual manner. The blank from which the head C is made is cut from sheet metal in star-shaped form, as seen in Fig. 2 that is, the edge out to form several points. This blank is then drawn in suitable dies into cup-shape, as seen in Fig. 3, the points all turned into a line substantially parallel with the aXis of the cup, and so that when in another die the points are turned inward toward each other, as seen in Fig. 5, it will form substantially a sphere.

A block, B, of paper or other suitable material, is placed between the two prongs at the head, as seen in Fig. 4. Then the cup is placed over the bend, as indicated in Fig. 4, and the points closed down upon the block B, so that the prongs A A will each lie in opposite slits, as seen in Fig. 5, thus shaping the head and securing the prongs and block B rmly within the head, and completing the article with a head in a single piece.

The head may be of other shape, and may be ornamented by engraving or impressing the metal, or by attaching an ornament thereto, and the shape of the head may he varied to suit the demands of the market.

I do not broadly claim a double-pronged hair-pin having a head made from sheet metal, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I am also aware that a hair-pin has been made by doubling a piece of wire to form two prongs, and then passing the prongs through the bottom of a metal disk forming a part ofthe head. I therefore do not broadly claim a twoprong pin with a head attached thereto.

The herein-described improvement in hairpins, consisting of the two prongs A A, combined with the head C, made from a starshaped single piece of metal struck into substantially spherical shape, the points closed around the prongs of the pin and upon the l1ing-block and securing the prongs in the head, substantially as described.

ALFRED J. SHIPLEY. Witnesses:

T. R. HYDE, Jr., M. L. SPERRY. 

